Creating your Own Pond

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Creating your Own Pond . Definitions. succession. A series of progressive changes in an animals or plants life where the numbers of each organisms are in balance with one another Prevents over or under population of one organism. Succession Example. Succession. Community. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Creating your Own Pond

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succession

• A series of progressive changes in an animals or plants life where the numbers of each organisms are in balance with one another

• Prevents over or under population of one organism

Succession Example

Succession

Community

• All living things in an area; • Living component of an ecosystem

Community

Population

• Members of each species in a community

abiotic

• Nonliving things within an ecosystem• Ex. Rock, dirt

frond

• The leaves of an aquatic plant, such as a lemna

niche

• A specific job of an organism within an ecosystem to keep it functioning.

• Ex. This bird keeps the population of frogs down by eating them

biotic

• Having to do with living things